Nice bit of stimulus. 65,000 and 100,000 total new jobs would be created in the various host cities during the preparation and operation of the tournament in the year of the event. If the USA does get awarded the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, one of the goal will be to generate immediate tangible effects.

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I invite you to recall how that outreach went during the January/February stimulus debate as recounted by the conservative UK daily, The Times (of London).
Do you remember now?
And should anyone then be surprised by how the health care debate has devolved into such acrimony? Click to continue reading...

Poor old Marouane Chamakh. He wants to move to a Premier League club, by God he does, but Bordeaux have slapped an enormous price tag on him which has ended the interest of Arsenal and countless other suitors. To his credit, however, Chamakh continues to bang in the goals and at this rate might attract the attentions of someone with rather more money sloshing around in the bank. Click to continue reading...

The DAVID VILLA transfer saga takes another twist with the digitaledition of "Marca" announcing that FC BARCELONA has come outof the shadows officially & made a 43M€ offer to VALENCIA CF.The "breakdown" of negotiations with Real Madrid & the apparentdesire by Valencia CF to sell to any one except Real Madrid hasgiven Barça the stimulus to "go for it", as they - Barcelona - claimagainst all other Click to continue reading...

It's a busy day, and I'd rather be off getting Distracter-fied (or let's face it, eating a pizza... or both), so let's get to it...#1 - President Obama has written a letter firmly backing U.S. efforts to land a World Cup in either 2018 or 2022 that was hand delivered to FIFA chief Sepp Blatter. Wicked. Click to continue reading...

A mirror into the divide between England's wholehearted embrace of the financial stimulus and the rest of the European countries go slow attitude. The overtly capitalistic Premiership does not just attract the most money but it also likes to live beyond its means.

The Forbes list of the top 20 richest clubs is out, and Arsenal finds itself behind Man U and Real at the top in valuations.

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From the office of the Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith comes this:

A plan to establish a "green" jobs development institute, put federal money to work creating tens of thousands of new infrastructure jobs and getting more than 1,000 new cops on the street are just some of the job creation efforts included in this year's budget passed today.

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BPS officials discuss the $24 million that the district will receive as a part of the federal governments stimulus package.

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The 2009 Senate session has been one of the busiest in recent memory. The budget deficit has every public agency and charitable group imaginable meeting with us in Albany and Buffalo to get their message across. It has been an interesting and very busy time, balancing those meetings with our Senate sessions, but progress is being made.

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Oh my god.  All I can say is "Oh, my god!"  We added a wireless access point on the third floor of our house yesterday (where I am writing) and it has opened up whole new vistas!  No longer do I wait for seemingly interminable minutes as screens open or posts get saved.  No longer [...] Click to continue reading...

So the stimulus package has passed, as the sun rises on this beautiful Saturday morning.  It wouldn't have, without the help of Arlen Specter, Olympia Snow, and Susan Collins - courageous, centrist Republicans in a sea of dissembling, disingenuous, faux bipartisan doofusses mouthing old platitudes and marching in lockstep. Click to continue reading...

244-188. Not a single solitary Republican voted in favor of the stimulus package. Most of them made mouth-noises about it not having enough tax cuts, but it has more to do with the identity of the current inhabitant of the White House. Click to continue reading...